This is a blog where I show images of things I see as I wander about, mainly in the Holme Valley at the edge of the Pennines in West Yorkshire. I'm fairly new to photography even though I'm not that young and I'm very enthusiastic about improving my skills. I like to process my photos to make them look as good as I am able. I love to share my images and some day I would like to start selling them as prints and framed and share with more people.

Sunday, 2 February 2014

Early Flowers in Beaumont Park

We've had a bit of a respite from the rain the last couple of days. Unfortunately I seem to have gone down with "man flu" so I'm not feeling much like getting out and about. However we popped out to Beaumont Park just before lunch today and I was very pleased to see lots of signs of spring on the walk and even a few early flowers adding a bit of colour to the landscape. So here's a few of the photos that I took earlier today starting with some snowdrops.

A closer shot of the snowdrops from low down. I had to take the camera strap from around my neck and use the screen to compose this shot.

Next are some little white and yellow primroses ...

... and some yellow ones too.

Not being an expert on flowers I had to look these next ones up and I hope they are Hellebore or Christmas Rose.

These are more Christmas Rose which are purple coloured and have not opened yet.

Some more primrose, white ones again and also a lovely vivid blue one.

I tried looking these flowers up but I wasn't sure where to start. The leaves look a bit like hebe or maybe a pieris but it's probably something completely different.

Another unknown flower which looks a bit like an iris but is probably something else. I wish I knew more about flower species so that I don't sound so dumb when I make these posts.

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Photo Blog of Colin Whiteley

Hi and welcome to my blog.

I have to apologise for neglecting my blog for a while. I have been hard at work getting my new web site up and running. I am setting the site up as Holme Valley Photo and will eventually be having a go at selling some of my work from the site. It's still very much under construction but you can link to it here.

I have also been getting up to speed with Google+ and have been posting a few photos to the Martin Bailey Photography (MBP) community. I'm not sure if this works if your not signed in as me but this might be a link to my G+ posts.

November/December 2014 - Look here at my holiday blog of when my daughter Ginny and I went to Iceland.